Wynter’s POV One Week later ‘That’s the last box’ Gage announces as he places the last of my few boxes onto the floor in the kitchen of the small apartment that sits over the top of the bakery that is owned and run by Mackenzie. The baker had immediately agreed to rent me the apartment, she tried to get me to live there for free, but I refused, I want and need to pay my own way, I don’t want any more handouts. Hali appears behind him, carrying my laptop bag, rolling her eyes pointedly at her fiancé as she hands it to me. ‘Sorry, it seems being pregnant means I can barely lift a can of soda according to some people’ she mutters, glaring at the soldier who looks completely unabashed as he blows her back a kiss. ‘You are carrying the most important cargo of all, sweetheart’ he replies,

